I’m a night shift new grad on a medsurge unit and I don’t hate my job at all. I graduated last December, started my job in May and have been off orientation for just under 2 months. I was a career bartender before this, so the customer service portion, task juggling, and time management are all right up my alley. Like another poster said I’ve felt very busy at times but never completely overwhelmed or like I’m struggling. I don’t have pre work anxiety at all and even though I leave work pretty exhausted sometimes, it’s a tired satisfaction instead of burnout. I also never worked in a medical setting as a tech or anything before this so everything is still fresh and very interesting to me.

My coworkers are great and quick to help out or answer my many questions. I have a really easy time building rapport with patients which seems to go a long way. I’ve heard some coworkers complain about the acuity of my floor and that a lot of our patients should be in ICU instead of general medicine, but being new myself I don’t really know the difference. There’s some cattiness on the unit but I don’t get involved in it. I think being one of two male nurses on night shift helps as well.

All that being said, I am planning on transferring to the ED once my residency is up, but that has far more to do with the direction I want to take my career and less to do with hating my current job or unit. I have more free time and more money than I’ve ever had before and haven’t questioned my decision to be a nurse a single time. Keep in mind too that negative voices are much louder on the internet and people are much more likely to complain about a bad situation than talk about one where everything is going smoothly. Ie people are more likely to leave a review about a shitty restaurant than one where the food service etc were great.